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    <blockquote> <ul> <li><p>The Portable Class Library project enables you to write and build managed assemblies that work on more than one .NET Framework platform. You can create classes that contain code you wish to share across many projects, such as shared business logic, and then reference those classes from different types of projects.</p></li> <li><p>Portable Library Tools is a new Visual Studio add-in from Microsoft that enables you to create C# and Visual Basic libraries that run on a variety of .NET-based platforms without recompilation.</p></li> </ul> </blockquote> <p>MSDN now has a nice <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg597391.aspx" rel="noreferrer"><strong>article/documentation on it</strong></a>. You can check it out and see what is supported in <strong><code>Portable Class Library</code></strong> <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gyx8R.png" alt="Icon For Portable Class Library">.</p> <hr> <blockquote> <p>The following assemblies are available within a Portable Class Library project:</p> <ul> <li>mscorlib.dll</li> <li>System.dll</li> <li>System.Core.dll</li> <li>System.Xml.dll</li> <li>System.ComponentModel.Composition.dll</li> <li>System.Net.dll</li> <li>System.Runtime.Serialization.dll</li> <li>System.ServiceModel.dll</li> <li>System.Xml.Serialization.dll</li> <li>System.Windows.dll (from Silverlight)</li> </ul> </blockquote> <hr> <blockquote> <p>You can find which members are supported by the Portable Class Library project in the reference topics for the .NET Framework Class Library. In the members table for a class, the following Portable Class Library icon appears next to supported members.</p> </blockquote> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Gyx8R.png" alt="Icon for Portable Class library"> (Icon for the Portable Class Library which you will see in MSDN Docs.)</p> <hr> <p>To create a Portable Class Library Project you need to have :</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>1</strong>. <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=75568aa6-8107-475d-948a-ef22627e57a5&amp;displaylang=en" rel="noreferrer"><strong>Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1)</strong></a> (795KB Installer, 1.48GB <a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=210710" rel="noreferrer"><strong>ISO</strong></a>)</p> <p><strong>2</strong>. <a href="http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/b0e0b5e9-e138-410b-ad10-00cb3caf4981/" rel="noreferrer"><strong>Portable Library Tools</strong></a> CTP (1.38MB)</p> </blockquote> <p>After Installing Above updates you will get a new Project Template for Portable Class Library :</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/PfDBk.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p><em>(Above Contents taken from MSDN)</em></p> <p>UPDATE 2014:</p> <p>Class Library Portable is part of Visual Studio 2014.</p>
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